The crystallization conjecture: a review
The crystallization conjecture: a review
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DOI:
10.4171/emss/13
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发表时间:
2015-01-01
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Lewin, Mathieu
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作者:
Blanc, Xavier;Lewin, Mathieu
In this article we describe the crystallization conjecture. It states that, in appropriate physical conditions, interacting particles always place themselves into periodic configurations, breaking thereby the natural translation-invariance of the system. This famous problem is still largely open. Mathematically, it amounts to studying the minima of a real-valued function defined on R-3N where N is the number of particles, which tends to infinity. We review the existing literature and mention several related open problems, of which many have not been thoroughly studied.